Social Justice and Liberation Frameworks in School and Community Settings
ECHD 8290
3 hours
Social Justice and Liberation Frameworks in School and Community Settings
Course Description
Review of social justice and liberation frameworks in school
and community settings, with an emphasis on theoretical
approaches and their connection to social change. A focus on
the mechanisms of privilege, oppression, and social change
leadership is provided, in addition to a community-based
project that implements course learning.
Athena Title
Social Justice
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will build on previous coursework to learn the connections between multiculturalism and social justice.
Students will understand interdisciplinary definitions of social justice and liberation in counseling and educational settings, and the history underlying these definitions.
Students will build on previous multicultural learning to examine how their identities related to privilege and oppression intersect, and how this intersection influences their ability to engage in social change.
Students will review the major social justice and liberation movements within and outside the U.S.
Students will examine multicultural identity development models (e.g., racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, etc.) from an interdisciplinary perspective and identify social justice implications.
Students will apply theories of ally development and leadership to themselves as social change agents and understand the interdisciplinary implications of this development.
Students will learn major factors in legislative advocacy and lobbying.
Students will learn to design prevention approaches to social justice concerns in P-16 settings.
Students will connect social justice theories with related research and advocacy implications.
Students will implement a social justice intervention utilizing social justice and liberation theories from course learning.
Students will summarize their learning of social justice and liberation frameworks from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Topical Outline
Social justice and liberation definitions in counseling and education P-16 settings
Cultural worldviews and relation to social justice and liberation
Mechanisms of oppression: power and privilege
U.S. social justice and liberation movements
International social justice and liberation movements
Identity development theories (racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, social class, disability, immigrant)
Ally identity development theories
Leadership strategies for social change
Legislative advocacy and lobbying
Policy development and social justice
Community-building and grassroots interventions
Prevention and social justice concerns in P-16 settings
Social justice project - intervention design and implementation
